Moylans Hopsickle Imperial India Pale Ale

Brewed by Moylans Brewery & Restaurant
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Novato, California USA

Bottle@LCRBM08. A clear yellow/golden colored beer, with an off-white head. The aroma of American hops, malty with some grassy. in the back tones of fruit. The taste is hop bitter with fruits like peaches. It’s also spicey. The aftertaste is long spicey and bitter.

22oz hop-bomber. Thick, unfiltered orange color. Very multi-faceted beer. A rounded hoppy flavor from the different varieties of hops. A strong malt backbone which stills shines through the hop intensity. It finishes bitter, dry, and piny, in a real good way. Displays the better attributes of a barleywine and a double IPA. Hardcore hophead beer.

22oz bottle: Pours to a mostly clear medium amber colored body with a large, creamy, eggshell colored head that really lasts. The aroma is fresh pine, grapefruit, floral, and a bit of earthy citrus scented hops, along with a mild scent of caramel. The taste is bitter fruity & earthy-citrus hops up front, followed by pine, ripe grapefruit, lemon grass, with almost no malt flavors detectable, and nicely, none of the advertised 9.2% alcohol comes through (though it really seems less to me). Light-medium bodied, moderately carbonated, finishes with a brief burst of sweet caramel, then extended bitter floral and pine hop flavors.

Bomber. Deep hazy orange with small white head. Super hops on the nose...but mixed with nice aromas of grapefruit, pine and apricots. Just add the great malt balance and you’ve got this great beer...I love it.

Bomber, fresh. Wow. This one is about as good as of an strong hop showcase as I’ve ever experienced. It pours hazy amber with a reasonable head. The aroma overflows with green -- cut grass and floral aromas dominate with plenty of juicy pine and citrus in the background to keep things full on the hop side. The dry-hopping just carries you away. There is not much else there in the aroma, but who cares? Inhaling this is a delight.

The flavor very nearly measures up. None of the burnt sugars that plague so many West Coast IIPAs; this one is juicy but quite dry, with a long lasting bitterness is that is almost subtle until you realize how totally bitter - no sweetness anywhere - the remaining oils are. Mouthfeel is full but not oily; the alcohol basically undetectable beneath the bitter hops.

This is how I like my IIPAs and while I usually drink IPA instead for a regular house beer, I think that this one too will become a staple in my house.

Bomber, ~ 6 months old. At six months of age, the hops have already receded a great deal. Lots of powerful caramel malt, pushing toward hoppy barleywine territory, still enough hops to be clear it’s an IIPA but lacking much of that huge juicy goodness that it carried fresh. I’d got about 3.7 or 3.8 for this one at this age.

I’m so happy i found a bottle of this, finally. Pours a dense copper and orange with a decent layer of film on top. Carbonation bubbles rise extremely slowly and are fairly big. Aroma is a strong dosage of freshly picked hops, pine and reminds me of a musty sweat. The drink is intensly bitter but delicious every last sip. Strong flavors of grapefruit, hop, and a sweetness similar to wild honey. Amazing double IPA, i couldn’t of imagined it being this good.

Thanks sebletitje for the share. Pours clear gold with a white head. Nose is malt, lemon, tart citrus, and caramel. Flavor is caramel, malt, pine, citrus, and floral hops. Medium-bodied and enjoyable. Lots of hops and well-hidden alcohol.

Pours a cloudy ruddy orange amber. Thick densely packaged beige-ish head. Caramel/toffee, citrus, grapefruit, pine resin nose. Sweet, chewy malts up front, toasted, roasty, medium to full body, dry, earthen, citric, floral, perfumey, pine hops linger along a drawn out finish. This is not far from some hoppy sex in the mouth. Khaki hop shorts, struttin down the sidewalk. Toss me some salad, you braggot. Thanks to Turd Ferguson for making me bring him to Julio’s for this luscious puppy.